June 2002
Beginner
759 pages
80h 42m
English
abbrev
abbrev (\%hashref,list)
Takes each string in list and
constructs the hash referenced by \% hashref.
Each key is an unambiguous truncation of one of the strings, and
the value is the full string (in which unambiguous means that
there is only one possible expansion that matches one of the
strings in the list). For example, if
list contains “file” and “find”, then
the key/value pairs created include:
fil => file file => file fin => find find => find
Both “f” and “fi” are ambiguous, since they start both words, and therefore, they don’t appear as keys.